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Step 1
Obtain a retail-management-related job before your class starts. Get as much on-the-job training as you can in advance of your exam. Get working knowledge in as many aspects of retail management as you can.
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Step 2
Purchase your retailing-management textbooks and software before your class starts. Download your software on your computer and read your text books from beginning to end. Read the first two chapters after you read the entire text. Do the exercises for both chapters. Start the written and practical exercises on your downloaded program. Do these before attending your first class.
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Step 3
Take notes as soon as your professor covers the first two retailing-management chapters. Get into the habit of taking daily notes. Study all of these notes every evening until you take the exam. Read the next chapters to be cover by the next class. Be sure you complete the book and software exercises associated with those chapters.
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Step 4
Do all hands-on, in-class exercises until you get them down cold. Apply what you learned to your work place. Contribute your retail-management experiences during class discussions. Form a retailing-management study group and orally test each other on the retail-management text.
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Step 5
Go back and study the sections of your retail-management textbook that you're not comfortable with. Continue to study your notes.
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Step 6
Sleep real well the night before the exam--make sure you get at least 8 hours of sleep. Don't eat a heavy meal before the exam. Refuse Chinese buffet invitations if your exam follows the scheduled lunch or dinner.
